2023 Undergraduate Student Awards
CREATIVE WRITING
Bain-Swiggett Award for a single poem, any kind ...$150
Flash fiction or prose-poem ...$100
Margaret Church Memorial Award for a short story ...$150
Original Play or Screenplay Award …$100
Paul Sidwell Memorial Award for a novel-in-progress (30-40 pages plus outline) ...$150
Polymnia Award for sequence of 3-7 poems on a related topic ...$150
Purdue Federal Credit Union Short Story Award ...$200
Purdue Federal Credit Union Creative Nonfiction Essay Award ...$200
LITERARY CRITICISM AND JOURNALISM
Helen Bass Williams Award for best critical essay on African, African American or Black Literature ...$100
Hugh McKee Memorial Award for best essay on workplace or business writing, technical communication, or health communication ...$150
Merrill & Marjorie Swedlund Memorial Journalism Award (news or feature story) ...$100
Leonora Woodman Award for best essay on women's literature ...$100
Peter C. Braeger Memorial Award for an essay on Medieval Studies …$100
R.W. Babcock Award for essay on Shakespeare ...$100
Sarah Fielding Award for the best essay on Children's or Young Adult Literature ...$100
INTERDISCIPLINARY AND CLA AWARDS
CLA Diversity Action Committee Award for best creative writing work or essay addressing the significance of diversity in our society ...$100
Department of Anthropology Award for best ethnographic essay ...$100
Department of Philosophy Eric L. Clitheroe Award for essay in any field of philosophy ...$100
Disability Studies Award for an essay or creative writing exploring some aspect of disability studies ...$100
Environmental Studies and Nature Writing Award for an essay or creative writing exploring some aspect of environmentalism/nature ...$100
LGBTQ Studies Award for an essay or creative writing exploring some aspect of sexuality and gender studies ...$100
School of Languages and Cultures Award for Literary/Cultural Analysis of texts written in a language other than English ...$100
Science Studies/Science Fiction Award for an essay exploring the impact of science and technology on society and culture (including literature/film) ...$100
VPA Award for best essay analyzing some aspect of art history ...$100
KNEALE AWARDS
Kneale Award in American Literature (any aspect or author) ...$200 (first place) ...$100 (second place)
Kneale Award in British Literature (any aspect or author) ...$200 (first place) ...$100 (second place)
Kneale Award in Film and Popular Culture ...$200 (first place) ...$100 (second place)
Kneale Award in History ...$200 (first place) ...$100 (second place)
Kneale Award in Linguistics ...$200 (first place) ...$100 (second place)
Kneale Award in Postcolonial Literature ...$200 (first place) ...$100 (second place)
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